Selling the trade For $10 was marketing genius. All the people who didn't get original copies of the first arc, bought the trade. And now, they need to go back and pick up the individual issues at an inflated, secondary market cost.

Selling the trade For $10 was marketing genius. All the people who didn't get original copies of the first arc, bought the trade. And now, they need to go back and pick up the individual issues at an inflated, secondary market cost.

Why do they need to go back and pick up the individual issues?? The whole point of buying a cheap trade is so you don't have to buy the pricey originals. And it wasn't priced cheaply to get people interested in buying individual back issues--Image has no interest in that, as they have no stake it back issues. It did, however, get people hooked cheaply so that they want to buy future issues.

Selling the trade For $10 was marketing genius. All the people who didn't get original copies of the first arc, bought the trade. And now, they need to go back and pick up the individual issues at an inflated, secondary market cost.

Why do they need to go back and pick up the individual issues?? The whole point of buying a cheap trade is so you don't have to buy the pricey originals. And it wasn't priced cheaply to get people interested in buying individual back issues--Image has no interest in that, as they have no stake it back issues. It did, however, get people hooked cheaply so that they want to buy future issues.

+1. Image has no stakes in the secondary market. The trade was priced cheaply to get people into the series and keep it going. However, trade releases often inflate back-issues since collectors realize what they passed on and suddenly "gotta catch em all" mentality drives the market. Saga has some excellent art, interesting characters, and a good story. First issue was a low print run, that is why it is a big deal.

Personally I think it's a little absurd, do you really have to collect all the printings? Next you know people are going to be hoarding foreign versions of the trade... oh, wait a minute...

Do you guys collect back issues of comics? Have you gone to a show or a store, and purchased an early Amazing Spider-Man or Batman book? Why? Most of the 700 issues of Amazing Spider-Man have been collected in trades somewhere (I'd imagine).

Maybe it's just me, but if I find a story that I like, I want to have the individual issues. I've got Dark Phoenix Saga in trade, in hardcover, and in individual issues.

And while Image certainly doesn't care too much about the secondary market value of their books, I believe the value of their titles on the secondary market helps their current profile.

Image has become, in many speculatorial eyes, as THE premiere publisher. Looking at the value of back issues of recent releases helps push people to speculate on upcoming releases.

Do you guys collect back issues of comics? Have you gone to a show or a store, and purchased an early Amazing Spider-Man or Batman book? Why? Most of the 700 issues of Amazing Spider-Man have been collected in trades somewhere (I'd imagine).

Maybe it's just me, but if I find a story that I like, I want to have the individual issues. I've got Dark Phoenix Saga in trade, in hardcover, and in individual issues.

And while Image certainly doesn't care too much about the secondary market value of their books, I believe the value of their titles on the secondary market helps their current profile.

Image has become, in many speculatorial eyes, as THE premiere publisher. Looking at the value of back issues of recent releases helps push people to speculate on upcoming releases.

I'm the same way. There are some titles I have a trade and the singles for one reason or another. I also have random issues because they have a cover I really like too, but not necessarily the ongoing itself.

Me either. I put up a pretty long review of the trade because I was so amazingly underwhelmed by all the people telling me how everyone HAS to read this AWESOME book. Bleh."Words have meaning." - my wife

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